STES Timeliness Framework: Selective (or Significance) Editing

This page contains links to detailed documentation on improving timeliness or reducing costs in the production of short-term economic statistics through selective (or significance) editing. The papers below provide detailed information on methods relevant to this topic which have been implemented within statistical organisations. Issues covered include:

• Methodological frameworks and the application of selective editing, which ensures that potentially erroneous survey data is only queried if the suspected error would have a significant impact on estimates
• Efficient approaches to editing survey data at both the data receipt and estimation stages

Primary papers

The papers below focus primarily on the issue of selective (or significance) editing. They may also contain information on other statistical processes defined in the STES Timeliness Framework.